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by mr2loco 1690 days ago
there is a dutch startup called roboat thats working on autonomous boats for transportation of humans. Eventually we will also have autonomous Cargo ships
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As far as I'm aware, dot ocean does it too ( Belgium - https://www.dotocean.eu/ )

By coincidence, they also had an experiment in Amsterdam.

Note: Friends of me.

When I met them (years ago), they seemed to be more focused on open waters. In particular, I believe they were providing monitoring vessels in the Mediterranean during the refugee crisis.
There are multiple products as far as i know (it's not an easy market to get into)

- Their IOT big data platform ( Atlantis - https://www.dotocean.eu/products/atlantis/)

- Dredging canals cheaper

- Autonomous boats

- Underwater soil detection with a probe

I'm not really sure if there is a specific focus on open waters though, but i don't think so.

Looks awesome. Bookmarked the page

tell your friends I'm rooting for them thats an interesting project